Michael Sawer

List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael Sawer plays a role.

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Sawer, Michael 1995 Handling neologisms in teaching and learning modern standard Chinese The Hard Work–Entertainment Continuum: Teaching Asian languages in Australia, Kirkpatrick, Andy, Yong Zhong and Helen Kirkpatrick (eds.), pp. 203–228 | Article
This article examines neologisms coined in Modern Standard Chinese since 1978, and particularly since the mid 1980’s. The neologisms discussed were collected during recent fieldwork in Beijing: through spoken interviews, from the media, and from recent secondary sources. The article focuses on… read more